Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2018 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Capri-Revolution
Mario Martone
2017 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Love and Bullets
Carlo Buccirosso
2016 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Indivisible
Edoardo De Angelis
2015 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Don’t Be Bad
Claudio Caligari
2014 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Black Souls
Francesco Munzi
2013 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Still Life
Uberto Pasolini
2012 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
The Interval
Leonardo di Costanzo
2011 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Terraferma
Emanuele Crialese
2010 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
20 Cigarettes
Aureliano Amadei
2009 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Lo spazio bianco
Francesca Comencini
2008 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Mid-August Lunch
Gianni Di Gregorio
2007 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Non pensarci
Gianni Zanasi
2006 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Golden Door
Emanuele Crialese
2005 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Good Night, and Good Luck.
George Clooney
2004 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
The Keys to the House
Gianni Amelio
2002 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Maximum Velocity (V-Max)
Daniele Vicari
2001 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Secret Ballot
Babak Payami
2000 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
One Hundred Steps
Marco Tullio Giordana
1999 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Un uomo perbene
Maurizio Zaccaro
1997 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea
Giuseppe M. Gaudino
1996 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
The Portrait of a Lady
Jane Campion
1995 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
God’s Comedy
João César Monteiro
1994 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Lamerica
Gianni Amelio
1993 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Short Cuts
Robert Altman
1992 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
La chasse aux papillons
Otar Iosseliani
1991 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Close to Eden
Nikita Mikhalkov
1990 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
James Ivory
1989 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
I Want to Go Home
Alain Resnais
1988 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Landscape in the Mist
Theodoros Angelopoulos
1987 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
House of Games
David Mamet
1986 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Round Midnight
Bertrand Tavernier
1985 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Fernando E. Solanas
1984 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Krzysztof Zanussi
1983 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Zelig
Woody Allen
1982 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Imperative
Krzysztof Zanussi
1981 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Prince of the City
Sidney Lumet
1980 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Aulad el rih – Les enfants du vent
Brahim Tsaki
1979 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Autumn Marathon
Georgiy Daneliya
1979 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Saint Jack
Peter Bogdanovich
1968 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Faces
John Cassavetes
1967 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Belle de jour
Luis Buñuel
1964 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Life Upside Down
Alain Jessua
1963 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
The Fire Within
Louis Malle
1962 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Vivre Sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard
1961 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Mir vkhodyashchemu
Aleksandr Alov
1960 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Masaki Kobayashi
1959 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
The Magician
Ingmar Bergman
1958 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award – Best Film
